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26 Cards in this Set
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Achaeans |
a collective name for all Greeks, including Ithacans |
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Achilles |
son of Peleus and Thetis, prophecy that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father, famed warrior, hero of Homer's Illiad, killed by Paris when he was shot in the heel with an arrow |
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Aeaea |
the island where Circe lived |
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Aegis |
a shield |
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Aeolia |
the land where Aeolus, god of the winds, lived |
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Ambrosia |
food of the gods |
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Charybdis |
A whirlpool, Scylla and Charibdis |
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Cyclopes |
a race of one-eyed giants |
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Epithet |
an adjective in front of a name to emphasise it |
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House/Halls of Hades |
the Underworld |
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Ithaca |
the island which Odysseus ruled |
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Lamentation |
signs of grief and sorrow |
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Nymph |
a fairy-like minor goddess |
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Phaeacia |
the land ruled by Alcinous (the father of Nausicaa) |
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Prophecy |
a prediction of the future given by a prophet |
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Scylla |
a six-headed monster which lived in a cave and ate sailors |
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Sirens |
birdlike monsters with the heads of women, they sang to lure sailors to my deaths |
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Telepylus |
the land of the Laestrygonians |
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Xenia |
the custom of guest friendship, guests are protected by Zeus |
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Polyphemus |
son of Poseidon, the Cyclops who captured and was then tricked by Odysseus |
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Ismarus |
a city sacked by Odysseus' men |
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Calypso |
held Odysseus captive and loves him, doesn't release him until instructed to by Hermes - sent by Zeus |
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Nausicaa |
a young Phaeacian girl who found Achilles naked and brought him to her father, the king |
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Laestrygonians |
a large race who attack and kill some of Odysseus' fleet |
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Circe |
a witch, turns Odysseus' men into animals and keeps them there for a long time |
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Troy |
the location of the battle of the Trojans and the Greeks |
